January 18, 2016 | 4:02pm nypost.com
Ex-Auschwitz medic, 95, to stand trial for 3,681 deaths
By David K. Li

A 95-year-old man who worked as a paramedic at Auschwitz will stand trial next month as an accessory to the murder of 3,681 death camp inmates, a German court announced Monday.

Hubert Zafke, accused by prosecutors of serving as an SS sergeant in Hitler’s killing machine, is set to face justice Feb. 29 in Neubrandenburg state court.

Zafke was stationed at Auschwitz in 1943 and 1944 and would have been on duty at the notorious death camp when diarist Anne Frank and her family were sent there on Sept. 5, 1944, authorities have said.

Frank, whose writings on hiding from Nazis pursuers became the most famous book about the Holocaust, was later transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she was killed.

While Zafke allegedly worked as a medic, prosecutors said, his real role had little to do with caring for sick or wounded inmates.

Instead, his unit was responsible for maintaining and administering the poison gas that murdered prisoners, prosecutors said.

Defense lawyers have argued he had no direct role in the genocide.

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